Darris Kilgour

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Darris Kilgour is a former professional lacrosse player and coach. Kilgour currently is the head coach of the Seneca WarChiefs (FNJBLL). He is from the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston New York.

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Player

Kilgour played for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League for eight seasons, before finishing his playing career with the Rochester Knighthawks and Albany Attack. As a player, he won three championships with the Bandits, and is the all-time team leader in penalty minutes and faceoffs. Kilgour's number '43' was retired by the Bandits in March 2001, [1] making him the first player to have his number retired by an NLL team. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame in 2007. [2]

In 1994, as a member of the Six Nations Chiefs, Kilgour was awarded the Mike Kelly Memorial Trophy as most valuable player in the Mann Cup competition.

Coach

Kilgour became head coach of the Washington Power for the 2001 season. He led the Power to the playoffs in each of his two seasons as coach before returning to Buffalo as their head coach after the 2002 season. The Bandits posted a 12-4 record in 2003, and Kilgour was awarded the NLL Coach of the Year Award (later renamed to the Les Bartley Award). The next year, after a mediocre 8-8 regular season, the Bandits caught fire in the postseason, making it to the Championship game for the first time since 1997, but lost the championship game to the Calgary Roughnecks losing 14-11. In 2005 the Bandits would again make it to the Champion's Cup final, this time falling short against Colorado Mammoth 16-9.

Following the 2012 season, Kilgour was fired from his post as general manager of the Bandits, but continued to hold the position of head coach. A season later on June 10, 2013, the Bandits Director of Lacrosse Operations, Scott Loffler, informed Kilgour that he would not be retained as coach for the 2014 season. [3]

Kilgour has more wins than any other coach in NLL history, surpassing Les Bartley's 93 wins on March 12, 2010 with the Buffalo Bandits defeating the Toronto Rock 11-10 in overtime at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.

Shortly after leaving the Buffalo Bandits Kilgour was hired as head coach of the Seneca WarChiefs, [4] a Junior B box lacrosse team who compete in the First Nations Junior B Lacrosse League.

Player statistics

 Regular SeasonPlayoffs
SeasonTeamGPGAPtsLBPIMGPGAPtsLBPIM
1992Buffalo82316395349359141811
1993Buffalo8111728693122352112
1994Buffalo671017382124711106
1995Buffalo68122017251145512
1996Buffalo6851326342437514
1997Buffalo821214256342347202
1998Buffalo123730676939142626
1999Buffalo81316294024------------
1999Rochester233630233654
2000Albany121338514728------------
NLL Totals76144168312418285152635618667

Arrests

Kilgour was arrested on May 9, 2011 for drunk driving after the police found his car in a ditch in the Town of Lewiston. There were additional charges of unsafe backing, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and refusal to take a breath test. [5] In 2013, Kilgour got his second DWI arrest in Lewiston after being pulled over at 3:00 AM. He was also charged with speeding and operating a vehicle without insurance or a registration. [6] Then, in 2014 he was arrested for second degree harassment, menacing and endangering a child after dropping his son of at his estranged wife’s house drunk. [7] Once he reached the house, he reportedly approached the house with a hammer and shoved his estranged wife to the ground and harassed her boyfriend. [8]

Car accident

On September 2, 2018, Kilgour was the victim of a hit and run where he broke both tibias, his femur and dislocated a knee. He had to have a metal rod inserted into his femur. [9] The man who ran him over, Clark Ivan Abrams, accepted a plea deal for first-degree reckless endangerment and had a blood alcohol content of 0.18 at the time of the accident. [10]

Awards

Preceded by NLL Coach of the Year Award
2003 		Succeeded by
Paul Day

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References

  1. ↑ "Bandits Retiring Rich Kilgours' Number 16". Buffalo Bandits. 29 March 2011. Archived from the original on 2015-09-28.
  2. ↑ "NLL Inducts Second Class to Hall of Fame". NLL.com. February 16, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
  3. ↑ Jim Flannery (December 18, 2013). "Buffalo Bandits 2014 NLL Preview: Big Changes Should Pay Big Dividends". Bleacher Report. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ "New indoor lacrosse team to play in Salamanca". Salmanca Press. 5 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Bandits coach Darris Kilgour arrested for DWI". Niagara Gazette. May 9, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Former Buffalo Bandits coach Darris Kilgour is cha". Inside Lacrosse. October 2, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Former Bandits Coach Darris Kilgour Arrested Again". In Lacrosse We Trust. June 20, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Ex-Bandits coach Darris Kilgour charged in domestic case". wn.com. June 19, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  9. ↑ Stephen Stamp (September 11, 2018). "Campaign Raising Funds for Darris Kilgour After Major Injuries Suffered in Accident". Inside Lacrosse. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Sanborn man admits to running over former Bandits coach Darris Kilgour". Union-Sun Journal. June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
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